Physician Assistant--Neurosurgery

Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner Neurosurgery (Outpatient)

Suffern, NY

The Department of Neurosurgery at WMCHealth is seeking to add an Advanced Practice Provider (APP), Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA), to their growing team. In this strictly outpatient role, the APP will work alongside experienced MDs and APPs, managing a wide variety of neurosurgical patients in the ambulatory setting. The ideal candidate for this position be detail-oriented, have excellent communication skills, and enjoy working in an ambulatory clinical setting.

Why Join Our Team?

• The opportunity to work across diverse clinical areas within neurosurgery, managing patients in an outpatient environment.
• Gain competency to manage patients independently and as part of a collaborative patient care team.
• Stay current with advances in neurosurgery at an academic medical center through continuing education, professional conferences, and literature review
• Be part of a supportive culture where PAs are integral to the team, not just an afterthought, with mentorship, learning, and leadership opportunities

Role Highlights:

• Order, interpret, and integrate diagnostic studies including imaging, labs, and neurophysiologic monitoring results.
• Develop, implement, and adjust individualized care plans in collaboration with members of the neurosurgical team
• Collaborate to optimize perioperative protocols, ensuring safe patient preparation, accurate surgical site verification, and comprehensive postoperative handoff.
• Educate patients and their family members on diagnoses, treatment options, potential side effects, and symptom management strategies while focused on treating each patient as a whole and individual person

What We're Looking For:

• Board certified Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner who possesses, or is eligible to obtain, an applicable NYS license, and has an active DEA
• Ideal candidates will have a minimum of 2 years of outpatient neurosurgery experience, although highly motivated new graduates will also be considered and are encouraged to apply.
• Must possess excellent communication skills and demonstrate an ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Active BLS & ACLS certifications

About Us:

WMCHealth is a 1,900-bed healthcare system headquartered in Valhalla, New York, with 10 hospitals on seven campuses spanning 6,200 square miles of the Hudson Valley. WMCHealth employs more than 12,000 people and has nearly 3,000 attending physicians. From Level 1, Level 2, and Pediatric Trauma Centers, the region's only acute care children's hospital, an academic medical center, several community hospitals, dozens of specialized institutes and centers, a state-of-the-art Telemedicine program, skilled nursing, assisted living facilities, homecare services and one of the largest mental health systems in New York State, today WMCHealth is the pre-eminent provider of integrated healthcare in the Hudson Valley. Westchester Medical Center Advanced Physician Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer. For more information, visit WMCHealth.org.

Other:

• Comprehensive salary and benefit package which includes malpractice coverage, CME Allowance, and 401k
• The highest standard of quality practice backed by comprehensive and collaborative support services
• Opportunities for continued professional development, mentoring and career advancement.
• Westchester Medical Center Advanced Physicians Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer.